Yesterday, we filmed! Success! We managed to get a whole lot of shooting done in the space of 5 hours. It was pretty epic and involved a lot of trawling the city for good locations and good spots, but we came away with a lot of footage. The more coverage, the better I say. So today we are editing and coming up with a (very) rough first cut. It will be interesting to see if we can avoid the film becoming a promotional video about this guy (Luka) and maintain the essence of Melbourne that we so wanted to capture with this documentary.
The filming process in itself was quite straight forward. We just had Luka with a lapel mic, no boom or mixer, no tripod - just the Z7 and a lot of different opinions on what and how to shoot. I found as the producer that I was more concerned with just getting it done and being aware of the time constraint, as opposed to last semester when, as the director, I was more interested in getting artistic shots and re-taking everything a million times. It's good to be decisive and move quickly, especially for our group, as we seem to have left filming so late in the game.
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